311292 (v.1) Nursing Practice 560

Area:	School of Nursing and Midwifery
Credits:	25.0
Contact Hours:	5.0
The tuition pattern below provides details of the types of classes and their duration. This is to be used as a guide only. For more precise information please check your unit outline.
Lecture:	1 x 3 Hours Weekly
Laboratory:	1 x 2 Hours Fortnightly
Clinical Practice:	1 x 42 Hours Once-only
Prerequisite(s):	311294 (v.1) Nursing Bioscience 561 or any previous version
Co Requisite(s):	311295 (v.1) Indigenous Australian Health and Culture 561
Syllabus:	Characteristics of the current health industry, consumers of health. Measurement and recording of health data. Nursing informatics. Legal implications in nursing practice. Nurses and Midwives Act (Codes and Standards of Practice), Australian Nursing and Midwifery Council competencies (ANMC) for nursing; Scope of Nursing Practice - Decision Making Framework. Fundamentals of nursing practice in a clinical context (Activity and Exercise Health Pattern). Critical thinking and principles of evidence based practice. Therapeutic communication. Introduction to microbiology: modes of transmission, standard precautions. Reflective learning.
To ensure that the most up-to-date information about unit references, texts and outcomes appears, they will be provided in your unit outline prior to commencement.
Field of Education:	060300 Nursing (Narrow Grouping)
SOLT (Online) Definitions*:	Not Categorised *Extent to which this unit or thesis utilises online information
Result Type:	Pass/Fail

Availability

Year	Location	Period	Internal	Partially Online Internal	Area External	Central External	Fully Online
2009	Bentley Campus	Semester 1	Y
2009	Bentley Campus	Semester 2	Y

Area External refers to external course/units run by the School or Department or offered by research.

Central External refers to external and online course/units run through the Curtin Bentley-based Distance Education Area

Partially Online Internal refers to some (a portion of) learning provided by interacting with or downloading pre-packaged material from the Internet but with regular and ongoing participation with a face-to-face component retained. Excludes partially online internal course/units run through the Curtin Bentley-based Distance Education Area which remain Central External

Fully Online refers to the main (larger portion of) mode of learning provided via Internet interaction (including the downloading of pre-packaged material on the Internet). Excludes online course/units run through the Curtin Bentley-based Distance Education Area which remain Central External